I escaped Ted Bundy
Sherry Deatrick was a young teen when she unknowingly escaped the clutches of serial killer Ted Bundy in the ‘70s. Read on to find out about her ordeal, and how she came to realise she'd been moments from death years later.
It had been a hot day at college and when Sherry fell out with her boyfriend, and instead of getting a ride home with him, she set off on foot. On her way home, a handsome stranger stopped to offer her a lift, and still angry with her boyfriend, she hopped in.
But the handsome stranger’s motives were sinister, and he drove Sherry out of state and to an abandoned building site. There, he tried to seduce her before his hands clutched around her throat.
She escaped with her life, too embarrassed to tell anyone what had happened to her after she’d hopped in a car with a stranger. It was only years later when Sherry, now a lawyer, saw an interview with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy on TV that a chill of recognition settled over her. It was the man from the summer of her youth…
Read the feature that appeared in the Sunday People below, or if you’re on a screenreader, click here to take you through to the digital version of the story on Mirror Online.
You can read Sherry’s testimonial about sharing her story through vT Features here.